ESSAY__JoSe__Siddhartha
In the story Siddhartha, written by Herman Hesse a young Brahmin's son, Siddhartha is beginning his own journey in search of enlightenment. The journey consists of four stages: innocence, initiation, chaos, and resolution. As he spends his life looking for ways to reach nirvana he goes through rebirth many times, each time learning something new. You can’t reach nirvana and understand everything from lectures and book, its something that one has learned from experiences.
When Siddhartha decides to leave the illustrious one, Buddha, is another step he takes in his journey, because he learns that his teachings have certain flaws in them and that Buddha himself didn’t achieve nirvana through teachings. "The teachings of the enlightened one Buddha embrace much, they teach much--how to live righteously, how to avoid evil. But there is one thing that is clear, worthy instruction does it not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the illustrious one himself experience…”/ (
Siddhartha is by the river sitting with Vesudeva and they both finally reached nirvana, just by listening to the river running. “When Siddhartha listened attentively to this river, to this song of a thousand voices; when he did not listen to the sorrow or the laughter, when he did not bind his soul to any one particular voice and absorb it in his Self, but heard them all, the whole. The unity then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word:
You can’t reach nirvana and understand everything from lectures and books, its something that one has tolerant from experiences. That’s exactly what Siddhartha had to go through to finally be a peace with him self and his surroundings. By leaving the Gotoma Buddha, and by simply taking the time to understand the things flow in life, like a river. Now he has finally reached the stage of his journey, resolution.
1 Comments:
At 10:50 AM,
Lychee said…
Excellent, essay, Jose. A few spelling errors, but your theory and evidence are clear and convincing.
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